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Israel Palestinians Conflict Army
Israel's military announced the dismissal of three generals and disciplinary actions against several other senior officers over their failure to prevent the October 2023 assault by Hamas, the deadliest attack in the country's history. The move comes two weeks after Israeli military chief Eyal Zamir called for a "systemic ...
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United Arab Emirates Sudan Conflict
Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Sunday the latest truce proposal sent by US envoy Massad Boulos on behalf of a group of mediators was the "worst yet" and unacceptable to his government. In a video address released by his office, he said the Quad, which in addition to the United States includes Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United ...
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Turkey Religion Pope Christianity
Turkey's Christian community, which hosts Pope Leo XIV this week, was a minority under the Ottoman Empire whose numbers have dwindled due to forced exiles and massacres. Today, it counts around 100,000 members spread across five denominations -- just a fraction of Turkey's population of 86 million, the vast majority of whom are Sunni ...
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Iran United States Israel Ali Khamenei
Iran's intelligence ministry has warned of attempts by foreign adversaries, including the United States and Israel, to target Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and destabilize the Islamic republic. The country's ISNA news agency reported on Saturday that Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib cautioned, "The enemy seeks to target the supreme ...
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Nigeria Christians Christian Association of Nigeria
Gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, a Christian group said Saturday, as security fears mounted in Africa's most populous nation. The early Friday raid on St. Mary's co-education school in Niger State in western Nigeria came after gunmen on Monday stormed a secondary ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 22/11 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Zeitz MOCAA Africa Museum Culture Cape Town
The offshore winds of Cape Town still carry the memory of the port, the muted echoes of colonial trade, and the vertical dream of a continent gazing toward the horizon. At the far end of the Waterfront in the Silo District, a silent concrete giant, abandoned for decades, has come to life as the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. Entering ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Saturday and said that in response, Israeli forces had killed five "senior Hamas terrorists." "Today, Hamas violated the ceasefire again, sending a terrorist into Israeli-held territory to attack Israeli soldiers. In ...
This is Beirut 21/11 18:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tehran United Nations Iran sanctions nuclear IAEA
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a new approach should be taken for the monitoring of the country's nuclear sites attacked in a recent war with Israel. Tehran is under pressure from Western powers to allow inspectors from the UN's nuclear watchdog into the facilities. "We need a method or a framework for how to inspect ...
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Middle East UAE Aviation Accident India
An Indian fighter jet crashed during a flying display at the Dubai Airshow on Friday, killing the pilot in front of hundreds of shocked onlookers. The Indian-made Tejas warplane was executing a manoeuvre when it plunged to the ground and erupted in a fireball. The pilot was unable to eject. Voir cette publication sur Instagram ...
This is Beirut 21/11 13:45 - Reading : less than a minute
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday it was cutting its 2026 budget by 17 percent amid declining donor contributions and would slash the equivalent of 2,900 full-time positions. "The ICRC remains committed to working on the front lines of conflict, where few others can operate," the organization's president Mirjana Spoljaric ...
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COP30 host Brazil unveiled a draft agreement on Friday that does not include a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels, a key demand by many countries at the climate summit. There is no mention of "fossil fuels" in the latest slimmed-down text proposal, released on the final day of the major UN climate conference in the rainforest city of ...
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Banks New York USA Tech AI Bubble
Tech firms led stock losses on Friday as investors struggled to shake off fears about an AI bubble, and after a sell-off on Wall Street sparked by job data dealt a further blow to hopes for a US interest rate cut. A blockbuster earnings report from chip bellwether Nvidia on Wednesday seemed to settle nerves that vast investments in the artificial ...